Well, I finished The Selection series over the weekend. Overall, it wasn’t a bad series. However, it’s more romance than dystopian. The dystopian aspects of the book felt more like afterthoughts. The romance was really what was front and center. I was hoping that the split would be more even, especially since the series is marketed as The Hunger Games meets The Bachelor. So while the series itself was entertaining, it didn’t quite meet my expectations.
After I had finished that series, I tried the Warm Delicacy series by Megan Duncan. It’s a vampire series, with vamps ruling the world and humans providing sustenance for them via blood banks. The first book, Savor, was actually pretty good with an intriguing plot twist at the end that made me want to read the second book, Indulge. Indulge picked up and ran with the love triangle that was set up in Savor but it just didn’t work for me. I won’t give away the plot device, but under the author’s constraints the love triangle just didn’t work for me. Between that and the slow pace (and idiocy of most all of the characters), Indulge ended up on my Books I Gave Up On shelf over at Goodreads.
The attempt at a dystopian setting in The Selection series made me think this weekend about the setting in my own potential novel. Originally, I was thinking of a dystopian society, but now I’m not so sure. I know I need a strict, government fearing, government spying type of society for the plot to work right. But now I’m not so sure a dystopian society is the way to go. Either way, the story has to be set at least a little into the future. It’s been an eye opener to realize how much impact setting can have on a plot.
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